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Rack PV – All-Volunteer Force & Selective Service Programs
Aisle P — Personnel & Talent Management
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Resources on this rack addresses the programs associated with the establishment and sustainment of conscription and volunteer accessions, along with associated civil-military relations. For related topics, see racks PR (Recruiting and On-Boarding) and EA (Organization of DoD & Civil-Military Relations)
This shelf provides resources associated with the general theory and practice of volunteerism, conscription, selective service, and other approaches to accession. This shelf is a stub — please contribute!
Faculty Publications:
- Runey, Michael and Charles D. Allen, “An All-Volunteer Force for Long-Term Success,” Military Review (November-December 2015): 92-100.
- Yuengert, Lou. “America’s All Volunteer Force: A Success?” Parameters 45, no. 4 (Winter 2015-16): 53-64.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- McConville, James C. and Christine E. Wormuth, “A Call to Service to Overcome Recruiting and Retention Challenges,” memorandum, July 20, 2022.
Strategies and Reports:
- Congressional Budget Office, The All-Volunteer Military: Issues and Performance (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Officer, 2007).
- Heck, Joseph J. (chairman), Interim Report: 2019 (Washington, DC: National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, 2019).
- National Center for Education Statistics, Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004 (Washington, DC: Department of Education, 2006).
- U.S. Army Accessions Command, “17-24 Year Old Potential Recruiting Market” (presentation, Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2007).
Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):
- Braw, Elisabeth. “The Military Aren’t Heroes or Villains. They’re Us,” Foreign Policy, July 1, 2019, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/01/the-military-arent-heroes-or-villains-theyre-us/
- DeGregorio, Nick. “Draft Time: This Is Why and How America Should Have Compulsory Military Service,” The National Interest, August 14, 2018, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/draft-time-why-and-how-america-should-have-compulsory-military-service-28747
- Eaglen, Mackenzie. “Paying for America’s All-Volunteer Military: Reform Is Not a Dirty Word,” Heritage Foundation, June 17, 2008, https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/paying-americas-all-volunteer-military-reform-not-dirty-word
- Finney, Nate. “A High-Tech Call to Arms: Mobilizing the Masses in the Twenty-First Century,” Modern War Institute, February 3, 2017, https://mwi.usma.edu/high-tech-call-arms-mobilizing-masses-twenty-first-century/
- Hendell, Garri, “Plan to Fight Like No One is Coming to Save You,” WAR ROOM, June 16, 2022, https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/no-one-is-coming/
- Institute of Land Warfare, Profile of the U.S. Army 2005 (Washington, DC: Association of the United States Army, 2005), https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/SR-2005-Profile-of-the-US-Army.pdf
- Long, James, “It’s Not the Economy: Why the Army Missed Its Recruitment Goals and What to do About It,” Modern War Institute, February 14, 2019, https://mwi.usma.edu/not-economy-army-missed-recruitment-goals/
- Perry, William J. (Chair). The U.S. Military: Under Strain and at Risk (Washington, DC: National Security Advisory Group, 2006), https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/files/nsag_us_military_under_strain_january2006.pdf
- Rostker, Bernard D., and K. C. Yeh. I Want You!: The Evolution of the All-Volunteer Force (Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2006), https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG265.html
- Stewart, Walter L. “The All-Volunteer Army: Can We Still Call it a Success?” Military Review 86, no. 4 (July-August 2006): 86.
Title image credit: U.S. Army photo, public domain.
Personnel (P): Manpower Strategies (PA) — Civilian Pers. Management (PC) — Development & Evaluation (PD) — Professional Military Education (PE) — Diversity & Inclusion (PI) — Pay & Benefits (PP) — Recruiting & On-Boarding (PR) — Training & Credentialing (PT) — Utilization (PU) — All-Volunteer Force & Selective Service (PV) — Casualty & Survivor Programs (PX) — Service & Joint Personnel (PZ)
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